<TITLE>17. Par 103-107</TITLE>L-103 You know, when John Glenn set there that morning, they was listening to the countdown. "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero." See? And now he's got to a spot to where it says, "It's three minutes till something's going to take off." They don't know what it is. "Three minutes until we have the zero hour."
Now, notice, the real believer is in Christ. No condemnation to them that's in Christ. Preach the Word, stay right with the Word. I don't care what the denominations say; they're going to believe It. They'll stand right there, because it's the Word. The denominationals kick up a big fuss and excommunicate them, run them out, and say they're crazy, everything like that. But they stay right with that Word. As long as God promised it, they stay there because they're astronauts. They believe the Word. And there's no way to get rid of them. They're going to leave you anyhow, so just--just let them alone awhile.

L-105 But they're in there, setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, listening to the countdown, the church ages and so forth. Glory. Makes you feel good, don't it? Listening to the countdown. What's the countdown? "All these things that's promised, here's where it happened. All these things is promised, here's where it happening. Where promise is, here's where it happened. The achievement that He promised today, here it is right among us." What are they doing? Listening to the countdown. How far has it come? All the way from Luther, the countdown. "Justification, sanctification... Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two..." Go up. What are they doing? Waiting for the takeoff, the zero hour. Amen.
[Brother Branham, eight hours later, recorded this additional ending portion inserted herein as paragraphs 106-111. He explains this during his evening sermon entitled In His Presence, paragraphs 4-5--Ed.]

L-106 This great orbiting that the Church is getting ready to do, and the great time of the countdown, I'd like to explain to you what I think the countdown is. Now, I think we just been through it in the church here. And now you notice that, when the natural astronaut is getting ready to leave the earth, there is a countdown starting from ten back to zero. Now, I haven't tried to break this message down and give it a spiritual application, as it would take too much time this morning. But I want to try to explain this to you, that ten is a number of worldliness, man. But seven is the number of God's perfection. Six days He made the heavens and earth, and the seventh He rested. And six thousand years the world is to labor against sin, or the church labor against sin, and the seventh is the millennium, the sabbath.

L-107 Seven is God's perfect number. And now, He has given us the correct countdown, and His countdown is not ten, but seven. We've just been through it in the Seven Church Ages. Now, we find out that over in Revelations, the first countdown was the first age. The second countdown, the second age and on to the seventh countdown. And here visible before us, as the picture's drawed, that we had this countdown. The first number counted was Ephesus. The second number counted was Smyrna--Smyrna, then Pergamos, Thyatira. Fifth was Sardis. Sixth was Philadelphia. And seventh was the Laodicean, the last church age. Then it's the zero time for the church to leave, after the church ages has served their term. Now, we know the Thyatira age has come and gone, and the Ephesian age has come and gone, the Philadelphian age has come and gone. And we are in the seventh church age, at the end of it, the Laodicean age. And that is the countdown.


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